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| 3719206058 | Allegory | a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical situation (eg. The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe is a religious allegory with Aslan as God) | 0 | |
| 3719206059 | Analogy | Compares two like things to clarify a difficult idea by showing how the idea is similar to a familiar one | 1 | |
| 3719206060 | Ambiguity | Uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language | 2 | |
| 3719206061 | Archetype | Recurring symbol, character, landscape, or event found in myth and literature across different cultures and eras (eg. The hero, the mother figure, etc.) | 3 | |
| 3719206062 | Authorial voice | The name given to the speaker of the story when the speaker is not otherwise identified, used to distinguish the narrator from the author | 4 | |
| 3719206063 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent person or idea that cannot respond (eg. The song Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) | 5 | |
| 3719206064 | Connotation | An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal meaning | 6 | |
| 3719206065 | Appeal to Authority | The speaker attempts to persuade by appealing to the respect people have for a famous person or institution | 7 | |
| 3719206066 | Pathos | Emotional appeal | 8 | |
| 3719206067 | Ethos | Credibility of the writer | 9 | |
| 3719206068 | Logos | Logical appeal | 10 | |
| 3719206069 | Purple Patch | A piece of notably fine writing. When there is an unusual piling up of devices in such a way as to suggest a self-conscious literary effort, a colorful passage standing out from the writing around it | 11 | |
| 3719206070 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it (eg. The pen is mightier than the sword, where the pen refers to words and the sword to force) | 12 | |
| 3719206071 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something such as an event, book, myth, or place that is commonly known | 13 | |
| 3719206072 | Litote | An understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite (eg. The ice cream was not too bad) | 14 | |
| 3719206073 | Mixed Metaphor | A combination of two or more incompatible metaphors which produces a ridiculous effect (eg. "we have to get all our ducks on the same page) | 15 | |
| 3719206074 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses (eg. The Beatitudes begin with "Blessed are") | 16 | |
| 3719206075 | Dead Metaphor | A metaphor which has become so commonplace it has lost its force (eg. breaking the ice) | 17 | |
| 3719206076 | Ad hominem | An attack on a person rather than the issue at hand (frequently used in politics) | 18 | |
| 3719206077 | Antithesis | A balancing of two opposite words, phrases, or clauses (eg. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times) | 19 | |
| 3719206078 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for a whole (eg. calling a royal figure "the crown") | 20 | |
| 3719206079 | Periodic Sentence | Long and frequently involved sentence in which the sentence is not completed until the final word, usually with an emphatic climax. Marked by suspended syntax. (eg. In spite of cold weather and heavy snow, the game continued) | 21 | |
| 3719206080 | Pathetic Fallacy | Faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature or nonhuman objects (eg. the night has been unruly) | 22 |
